This concise, highly regarded text on the nature of orbitals, terms, and
states offers a fine introduction to quantum chemistry. The treatment is
especially suitable for students with a limited mathematical
background.
Topics include atomic and molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and
bonding theory. More briefly covered are the expansion theorem and the
concept of basic functions, perturbation theory and the variational
principle, secular equations and determinants, Slater determinants and
antisymmetry, and real versus complex orbitals. Based on the author's
years of teaching experience, the mathematical explanations are
presented as simply as possible, and the more difficult subjects are
explained fully.
An excellent supplement to any chemistry text for undergraduate students
in chemistry and related fields.